Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Oil spewing from well near Louisiana marsh

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38429966/ns/us_news-environment/


20-foot-high plume seen; tug boat hit well before dawn, officials say


Adding insult to the Gulf's injury, a wellhead hit by a tug boat is now spewing oil near a Louisiana marsh area, officials said Tuesday.

The oil is shooting up 20 feet into the air, the office of Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said.

"We cannot catch a break," Deano Bonano, Jefferson Parish emergency management director, said in a note to parish officials.

The well is in inland waterways on the border of Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes, about 65 miles south of New Orleans; it's marsh area not accessible by road